First Conop To Bagram; Meeting LTC SFowski

"In mid April of 2007, SFC O, SSG Maniac, and I learned that we were being detached from our team and assigned to the ANP mission. It was a huge disappointment coupled with fear of the unknown; we had trained with our team at Ft Riley to mentor the ANA. Now we were being separated not only from our original mission, but from our team as well.

It's funny; you may not like everyone on your team, but you still don't want to be separated from them. That's just fear of the unknown, plain and simple. None of us wanted to be separated from the team. We also didn't want to be on the ANP mission.

We had no idea what to expect at all. After the surprise of arriving in Afghanistan, which nothing can adequately prepare you for, now there was even more unknown to deal with. We had heard of the possibility of being detached from our teams to be reassigned to the ANP mission while we were still at Ft Riley, but that was supposedly based on having civilian law enforcement experience."
Bill and Bob Afghan Adventure